Jawole Willa Jo Zollar
Updated
30 Nov 2016
30 Nov 2016
jawole-willa-jo-zollar-01.jpg
Jawole Willa Jo Zollar. Photo by Crush Boone.
Choreographer Jawole Willa Jo Zollar is founding artistic director of Urban Bush Women (UBW), a performance ensemble dedicated to exploring the use of cultural expression as a catalyst for social change. In addition to her work with UBW, Zollar has created works for Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Philadanco, Virginia Commonwealth University, among others; and with collaborators including Nora Chipaumire and Compagnie Jant-Bi. A professor of dance at Florida State University, her honors include a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Doris Duke Artist Award, and a USA Artists Wynn Fellowship. Zollar served as a Center LOI panelist in dance in 2012, and in Performance in 2014.
Related Grants
Related Organizations
-
news-contenton-stage-this-fall-opera-philadelphia-s-first-festival-premieres-from-new-paradise-laboratories-thaddeus-phillips-tempesta-di-mare-and-more
-
event-contentsupper-people-on-the-move
-
grant-contentnew-edge-performing-artists-residency
-
grant-contentthis-town-is-a-mystery
-
event-contentfacing-front-part-two-lectures-and-performances-by-jonathan-burrows-and-matteo-fargion
-
news-contentartist-residencies-awarded-to-pew-fellows-nichole-canuso-and-jennifer-kidwell
-
news-contentin-print-soon-the-sentient-archive-bodies-performance-and-memory
-
news-contentpew-fellows-news-caconrad-receives-lambda-literary-award-leroy-johnson-s-work-at-the-barnes-foundation-stacy-levy-s-installation-enlivens-the-schuylkill-river-and-more
-
grant-contentaction-is-primary
-
people-contentgermaine-ingram
-
event-contentin-the-new-body-pennsylvania-ballet-performs-trisha-brown-039-s-o-zlozony-o-composite
-
question-of-practice-contentpew-fellow-of-the-week-an-interview-with-writer-and-cultural-scholar-brenda-dixon-gottschild
-
question-of-practice-contentquestions-of-practice-curator-ruth-estevez-on-why-some-performances-should-remain-in-the-past
-
news-contentcoming-in-2018-center-funded-projects-from-taylor-mac-nels-cline-tania-el-khoury-trenton-doyle-hancock-and-more
-
event-contentpotluck-and-dance-party-with-rosie-ledet-amp-amp-the-zydeco-playboys
-
people-contentjerome-bel
-
people-contenthellmut-gottschild
-
grant-contentthe-breaks
-
people-contentroyal-hartigan
-
event-contentin-the-new-body-at-the-crossroads-of-dance-and-visual-art